Animal-powered water lifter, folio 55.121.11 — Metropolitan Museum of Art

رافعة الماء العاملة بالحمار، الورقة 55.121.11 — متحف المتروبوليتان

Catalogue of a folio from al-Jazari's book, dated 715 AH/1315 CE and copied by Farrukh ibn Abd al-Latif; it shows an animal-powered water lifter, not surviving machinery.

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